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  • A concept of Signal Equalization Method Based on Music Genre and the Listener's Room Characteristics

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    - Year 2016

    A research study that investigates the influence of the room acoustics environment on the frequency characteristic of the audio signal playback is presented. First, a novel spectral equalization method of the room acoustic conditions is introduced. On the basis of the frequency response of the room, a system for room acoustics compensation based on eight-band equalizer is proposed. The system settings depend on music genre. In...

  • Application of auto calibration and linearization algorithms to improve sound quality of computer devices

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    - Year 2015

    An application of auto calibration and linearization algorithms designed for correcting acoustic characteristics of selected computer devices was presented in the paper. The functionality of the algorithms were presented for two kind of computer devices: ultrabook class computer and portable device of All-In-One type. The algorithms were adjusted for the given type of the device on the basis of series of measurements conducted...

  • INVESTIGATION OF BOTTOM SEDIMENT STRATIFICATION

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    The main goal of this paper is to find a method to assess remotely the type of sediments on the basis of the signal received using the parametric echosounder. The images of the sea bottom sediments taken by a parametric echosounder show the fine structure of the upper layer of the bottom sediments. The depth of penetration depends on the type of sediment, in fact on the attenuation of acoustic wave. In the paper the method of distinguishing...

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  • Music signal equalization in a changing environment

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    - Year 2019

    The paper presents the concept of an automatic system for music signal correction, considering room frequency response and music genre being played. The proposed algorithm, based on the room frequency response, compensates acoustic conditions surrounding the sound source. Additionally, the compensation process considers the signal content by recognizing music genre. As part of the described research, a series of subjective tests...

  • Optymalizacja zasobów chmury obliczeniowej z wykorzystaniem inteligentnych agentów w zdalnym nauczaniu

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    - Year 2023

    Rozprawa dotyczy optymalizacji zasobów chmury obliczeniowej, w której zastosowano inteligentne agenty w zdalnym nauczaniu. Zagadnienie jest istotne w edukacji, gdzie wykorzystuje się nowoczesne technologie, takie jak Internet Rzeczy, rozszerzoną i wirtualną rzeczywistość oraz deep learning w środowisku chmury obliczeniowej. Zagadnienie jest istotne również w sytuacji, gdy pandemia wymusza stosowanie zdalnego nauczania na dużą skalę...

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  • Assessing the attractiveness of human face based on machine learning

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    The attractiveness of the face plays an important role in everyday life, especially in the modern world where social media and the Internet surround us. In this study, an attempt to assess the attractiveness of a face by machine learning is shown. Attractiveness is determined by three deep models whose sum of predictions is the final score. Two annotated datasets available in the literature are employed for training and testing...

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  • Multi-criterion, evolutionary and quantum decision making in complex systems

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    - Year 2011

    Multi-criterion, evolutionary and quantum decision making supported by the Adaptive Quantum-based Multi-criterion Evolutionary Algorithm (AQMEA) has been considered for distributed complex systems. AQMEA had been developed to the task assignment problem, and then it has been applied to underwater vehicle planning as another benchmark three-criterion optimization problem. For evaluation of a vehicle trajectory three criteria have...

  • WPŁYW KAUSTYKI NA AKUSTYKĘ GROT SZEPTÓW W PARKU OLIWSKIM W GDAŃSKU

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    - Year 2017

    W pracy omówiono kaustykę jako uporządkowaną formę rozmycia ogniska, tworzonego przez zwierciadło wklęsłe. Zaprezentowano przykład kaustyki powstającej przy odbiciu światła od zwierciadła wklęsłego. Na tym tle wskazano na możliwość powstawania kaustyk w pomieszczeniach. Szczególną uwagę zwrócono na duże pomieszczenia o charakterze historycznym, ze względu na częstą obecność w nich zwierciadeł akustycznych w postaci sklepień i...

  • The Innovative Faculty for Innovative Technologies

    A leaflet describing Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdańsk University of Technology. Multimedia Systems Department described laboratories and prototypes of: Auditory-visual attention stimulator, Automatic video event detection, Object re-identification application for multi-camera surveillance systems, Object Tracking and Automatic Master-Slave PTZ Camera Positioning System, Passive Acoustic Radar,...

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  • Adaptive Personal Tuning of Sound in Mobile Computers

    An integrated methodology for enhancing audio quality in mobile computers is presented. The key features are adaptation of the characteristics of their acoustic track to changing acoustic conditions of the environment and to users’ individual preferences. Signal processing algorithms are introduced that concern: linearization of frequency response, dialogue intelligibility enhancement, and dynamics processing tuned up to the users’...

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  • Adaptive system for recognition of sounds indicating threats to security of people and property employing parallel processing of audio data streams

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    - Year 2015

    A system for recognition of threatening acoustic events employing parallel processing on a supercomputing cluster is featured. The methods for detection, parameterization and classication of acoustic events are introduced. The recognition engine is based onthreshold-based detection with adaptive threshold and Support Vector Machine classifcation. Spectral, temporal and mel-frequency descriptors are used as signal features. The...

  • Nietypowa podziemna konstrukcja oporowa w technologii DSM jako zabezpieczenie głębokiej wymiany gruntu

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    W artykule przedstawiono nietypowe rozwiązanie podparcia i zabezpieczenia głębokiej wymiany gruntu z zastosowaniem przestrzennej konstrukcji oporowej w technologii DSM, ze względu na ograniczenie miejsca oraz zapewnienie stateczności nasypu drogowego. Opisano również realizację rozwiązania oraz prowadzony monitoring geotechniczny.

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  • Nietypowa podziemna konstrukcja oporowa w technologii DSM jako zabezpieczenie głębokiej wymiany gruntu

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    • G. Horodecki

    - Year 2020

    W artykule przedstawiono nietypowe rozwiązanie podparcia i zabezpieczenia głębokiej wymiany gruntu z zastosowaniem przestrzennej konstrukcji oporowej w technologii DSM, ze względu na ograniczenie miejsca oraz zapewnienie stateczności nasypu drogowego. Opisano również realizację rozwiązania oraz prowadzony monitoring geotechniczny.

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  • Highly effective degradation of selected groups of organic compounds by cavitation based AOPs under basic pH conditions

    Cavitation has become on the most often applied methods in a number of industrial technologies. In the case of oxidation of organic pollutants occurring in the aqueous medium, cavitation forms the basis of numerous advanced oxidation processes (AOPs). This paper presents the results of investigations on the efficiency of oxidation of the following groups of organic compounds: organosulfur, nitro derivatives of benzene, BTEX, and...

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  • MOŻLIWOŚCI IDENTYFIKACJI STANU TECHNICZNEGO WARSTW ŚLIZGOWYCH ŁOżYSK SILNIKÓW SPALINOWYCH O ZAPŁONIE SAMOCZYNNYM W PRZYPADKU WYKORZYSTANIA EMISji AKUSTYCZNEJ JAKO SYGNAŁU DIAGNOSTYCZNEGO

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    - Year 2014

    W artykule zaprezentowano wyniki badań wielowarstwowych panwi łożysk ślizgowych silników tłokowych. Scharakteryzowano własności obciążeń tego rodzaju panwi oraz ich zużycia szczególnie zmęczeniowego i ściernego. Wykazano przydatność emisji akustycznej jako sygnału diagnostycznego do ujawniania zużycia powłok ślizgowych i zaporowych. Przedstawiono wyniki pomiarów parametrów emisji akustycznej, wykonanych za pomocą 12- kanałowej...

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  • The shallow sea experiment with usage of linear hydrophone array

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    - Year 2013

    Purpose of this article is to present designed and made linear hydrophone array and the results obtained during in situ trails on Gulf of Gdańsk. The measuring system allowed to localize hydrophones in the selected points and perform measurements in both the horizontal antenna positioning and vertical. Made in this way recordings allow creating accurate 3D imaging of sound intensity/propagation. During research three floating objects...

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  • Introduction to the special issue on machine learning in acoustics

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    • Z. Michalopoulou
    • P. Gerstoft
    • B. Kostek
    • M. A. Roch

    - Journal of the Acoustical Society of America - Year 2021

    When we started our Call for Papers for a Special Issue on “Machine Learning in Acoustics” in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, our ambition was to invite papers in which machine learning was applied to all acoustics areas. They were listed, but not limited to, as follows: • Music and synthesis analysis • Music sentiment analysis • Music perception • Intelligent music recognition • Musical source separation • Singing...

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  • A Comparison of STI Measured by Direct and Indirect Methods for Interiors Coupled with Sound Reinforcement Systems

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    This paper presents a comparison of STI (Speech Transmission Index) coefficient measurement results carried out by direct and indirect methods. First, acoustic parameters important in the context of public address and sound reinforcement systems are recalled. A measurement methodology is presented that employs various test signals to determine impulse responses. The process of evaluating sound system performance, signals enabling...

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  • Excitation of Non-Wave Modes by Sound of Arbitrary Frequency in a Chemically Reacting Gas

    The nonlinear phenomena in the field of high intensity sound propagating in a gas with a chemical reaction, are considered. A chemical reaction of A → B type is followed by dispersion and attenuation of sound which may be atypical during irreversible thermodynamic processes under some conditions. The first and second order derivatives of heat produced in the chemical reaction evaluated at the equilibrium temperature, density and...

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  • Investigation of Transmit and Receive Characteristics of Laboratory Model for the Parametric Echosounder

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    - ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA A - Year 2013

    Investigation and operation of devices based on nonlinear interaction of high-intensity waves have been carried out for several decades. However, it is still a new tool to study the properties of the water environment and especially the upper layers of the seabed. This paper describes the results of tests of the new device that is intended to be applied for sounding underwater areas. The device has been designed and built in collaboration with...

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  • Effect of shielded electrode wet welding conditions on diffusible hydrogen content in deposited metal

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    Wet welding is the most popular method of joining in water enviroment. During underwater welding, the weldability of steel is limited by the higher cooling rates and hydrogen content in weld metal. Article presents results of preliminary tests on the effects of wet welding conditions on diffusible hydrogen amount. Seven parameters were optimized using a Plackett-Burman plan to get the most relevant variables. These parameters were:...

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  • Wastewater treatment by means of advanced oxidation processes based on cavitation – A review

    Hydrodynamic and acoustic cavitation combined with advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), including, among others, the Fenton process, is a promising alternative to the technologies of wastewater treatment technologies in use today. The present review discusses processes based on cavitation combined with AOPs and evaluates their effectiveness in oxidation of organic contaminants. Complete degradation of, among others, p-nitrotoluene,...

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  • Detection of Objects Buried in the Sea Bottom with the Use of Parametric Echosounder

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    - Archives of Acoustics - Year 2013

    The paper contains results of a in situ research main task of which was to detect objects buried, partially or completely, in the sea bottom. Object detecting technologies employing acoustic wave sources based on nonlinear interaction of elastic waves require application of parametric sound sources. Detection of objects buried in the sea bottom with the use of classic hydroacoustic devices such as the sidescan sonar or multibeam...

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  • PHONEME DISTORTION IN PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS

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    - Year 2015

    The quality of voice messages in speech reinforcement and public address systems is often poor. The sound engineering projects of such systems take care of sound intensity and possible reverberation phenomena in public space without, however, considering the influence of acoustic interference related to the number and distribution of loudspeakers. This paper presents the results of measurements and numerical simulations of the...

  • Analysis of a caustic formed by a spherical reflector: Impact of a caustic on architectural acoustics

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    Focusing sound in rooms intended for listening to music or speech is an acoustic defect. Design recommendations provide remedial steps to effectively prevent this. However, there is a category of objects of high historical or architectural value in which the sound focus correction is limited or even abandoned. This also applies to indoor or outdoor concert shells, installations for teaching and acoustic presentations, etc. The...

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  • Influence of the Widespread Use of Corten Plate on the Acoustics of the European Solidarity Centre Building in Gdansk

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    This paper describes the relationship between a strong architectural vision that is difficult to balance, and user expectations in terms of acoustics. The focus is on the use of corten steel as the dominant finishing material on façades and interiors to achieve an expressive, symbolic message through program-based design. The architectural premises justifying the adopted solutions are presented, especially the universality and...

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  • Analysis-by-synthesis paradigm evolved into a new concept

    This work aims at showing how the well-known analysis-by-synthesis paradigm has recently been evolved into a new concept. However, in contrast to the original idea stating that the created sound should not fail to pass the foolproof synthesis test, the recent development is a consequence of the need to create new data. Deep learning models are greedy algorithms requiring a vast amount of data that, in addition, should be correctly...

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  • Zastosowanie techniki ściegu odpuszczającego do spawania mokrego

    W artykule przedstawiono zastosowanie techniki ściegu odpuszczającego do poprawy właściwości złączy ze stali konstrukcyjnych wykonywanych w warunkach mokrego spawania pod wodą. Scharakteryzowano spawanie mokre elektrodami otulonymi zmiany struktury i właściwości złączy spawanych przez nakładanie ściegów odpuszczających. Przedstawiono metodykę oraz wyniki badań metalograficznych i twardości próbek ze stali konstrukcyjnej o podwyższonej...

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  • Modeling of Combined Phenomena Affecting an AUV Stealth Vehicle

    In the paper some results of research connected with modelling the basic stealth characteristics of an AUV vehicle are presented. First of all a general approach to design of the stealth AUV autonomous underwater vehicle under consideration is introduced. Then, the AUV stealth vehicle concept is briefly described. Next a method of modelling of the stealth characteristics is briefly described as well. As an example of the stealth...

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  • Nowoczesne technologie uszczelniania wałów przeciwpowodziowych.

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    • A. Brożek

    - Materiały Budowlane - Year 2003

    Opisano zastosowanie wąskoszczelinowych przesłon przeciwfiltracyjnych wykonywanych w technologii WIPS wibracyjnie iniektowana przesłona szczelinowa oraz DSM ( ang. deep soil mixing - mieszanie wgłębne gruntu). Przedstawiono przykłady zastosowania w Polsce.

  • Developing assumptions for the tram noise attenuation passive system using the noise maps analysis method

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    The paper presents experimental research carried out to determine the possible actions to reduce thenoise generated by trams in a highly urbanised area. A few design strategies affecting tram ride qualityhave been presented – especially in the aspect of the acoustic phenomena. Main sources of the noisein trams were characterised. The paper includes selected results of comprehensive...

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  • Distributed System For Noise Threat Evaluation Based On Psychoacoustic Measurements

    An innovative system designed for the continuous monitoring of acoustic climate of urban areas was presentedin the paper. The assessment of environmental threats is performed using online data, acquired through a grid ofengineered monitoring stations collecting comprehensive information about the acoustic climate of urban areas.The grid of proposed devices provides valuable data for the purpose of long and short time acoustic climateanalysis....

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  • Detection of the Incoming Sound Direction Employing MEMS Microphones and the DSP

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    - Year 2017

    A 3D acoustic vector sensor based on MEMS microphones and its application to road traffic monitoring is presented in the paper. The sensor is constructed from three pairs of digital MEMS microphones, mounted on the orthogonal axes. Signals obtained from the microphones are used to compute sound intensity vectors in each direction. With this data, it is possible to compute the horizontal and vertical angle of an incoming sound....

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  • Cavitation based cleaner technologies for biodiesel production and processing of hydrocarbon streams: A perspective on key fundamentals, missing process data and economic feasibility – A review

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    - ULTRASONICS SONOCHEMISTRY - Year 2022

    The present review emphasizes the role of hydrodynamic cavitation (HC) and acoustic cavitation in clean and green technologies for selected fuels (of hydrocarbon origins such as gasoline, naphtha, diesel, heavy oil, and crude oil) processing applications including biodiesel production. Herein, the role of cavitation reactors, their geometrical parameters, physicochemical properties of liquid media, liquid oxidants, catalyst loading,...

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  • Multimodal Surveillance Based Personal Protection System

    A novel, multimodal approach for automatic detection of abduction of a protected individual, employing dedicated personal protection device and a city monitoring system is proposed and overviewed. The solution is based on combining four modalities (signals coming from: Bluetooth, fixed and PTZ cameras, thermal camera, acoustic sensors). The Bluetooth signal is used continuously to monitor the protected person presence, and in case...

  • On Some Aspects of Fish Target Strength Estimation in Shallow Waters

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    - Year 2013

    The theory of acoustic surveys for determining fish abundance are well established in fishery acoustics. The origins of the estimation are related to overcoming the problem of unknown position of target in the beam using statistical inversion. Although recently researchers use more sophisticated echosounders that provides more informative data allowing for direct solution it is known that the results are biased due to not ideally...

  • A Study of Cross-Linguistic Speech Emotion Recognition Based on 2D Feature Spaces

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    • G. Tamulevicius
    • G. Korvel
    • A. B. Yayak
    • P. Treigys
    • J. Bernataviciene
    • B. Kostek

    - Electronics - Year 2020

    In this research, a study of cross-linguistic speech emotion recognition is performed. For this purpose, emotional data of different languages (English, Lithuanian, German, Spanish, Serbian, and Polish) are collected, resulting in a cross-linguistic speech emotion dataset with the size of more than 10.000 emotional utterances. Despite the bi-modal character of the databases gathered, our focus is on the acoustic representation...

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  • Low-frequency noise in ZrS3 van der Waals semiconductor nanoribbons

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    • A. Rehman
    • G. Cywiński
    • W. Knap
    • J. Smulko
    • A. Balandin
    • S. Rumyantsev

    - APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS - Year 2023

    We report the results of the investigation of low-frequency electronic noise in ZrS3 van der Waals semiconductor nanoribbons. The test structures were of the back-gated field-effect-transistor type with a normally off n-channel and an on-to-off ratio of up to four orders of magnitude. The current–voltage transfer characteristics revealed significant hysteresis owing to the presence of deep levels. The noise in ZrS3 nanoribbons...

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  • Weldability of high strength steels in wet welding conditions

    In this paper are characterized problems of high strength steel weldability in underwater wet welding conditions. Water as a welding environment intensifies action of unfavourable factors which influence susceptibility to cold cracking of welded steel joints. The susceptibility to cold cracking of S355J2G3 steel and S500M steel in wet conditions was experimentally estimated (by using Tekken test). It was concluded that the steels...

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  • Kinedynamics of Spherical Wavefields in Fluid and Dielectric Continua

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    - Year 2016

    Distubances induced by physical sources in fluids or dielectrics maintain their primary character while propagating throughout either of these bi-dynamic continua. The paper defines and illustrates four sets of bi-fields based on four specific fundamental kinedynamic solutions to inhomogeneous wave equations related to quasi-point acoustic and electromagnetic sources.

  • Analiza akustyki Teatru im. Marii Zańkowieckiej we Lwowie na podstawie pomiarów fotogrametrycznych i akustycznych

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    • T. Kamisiński
    • A. Kulowski
    • R. Kinasz
    • A. Pilch
    • A. Waczko

    - Year 2008

    Utworzono model komputerowy pola akustycznego w sali widowiskowej Teatru i zbadano zakres możliwych zmian akustyki sali w związku z planowanym remontem sali. Model został skalibrowany na podstawie pomiarów akustycznych w stanie aktualnym. W obliczeniach wykorzystano program komputerowy CATT-Acoustic.

  • The vortex flow caused by sound in a bubbly liquid

    Generation of vorticity in the field of intense sound in a bubbly liquid in the free half-space is considered. The reasons for generation of vorticity are nonlinearity, diffraction, and dispersion. Acoustic streaming differs from that in a Newtonian fluid. Under some conditions, the vortex flow changes its direction. Conclusions concern streaming induced by a harmonic or an impulse Gaussian beam.

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  • A low complexity double-talk detector based on the signal envelope

    A new algorithm for double-talk detection, intended for use in the acoustic echo canceller for voice communication applications, is proposed. The communication system developed by the authors required the use of a double-talk detection algorithm with low complexity and good accuracy. The authors propose an approach to doubletalk detection based on the signal envelopes. For each of three signals: the far-end speech, the microphone...

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  • Investigation of the laser generated ablation plasma plume dynamics and plasma plume sound wave dynamics

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    • M. Tański
    • R. Barbucha
    • M. Kocik
    • K. Garasz
    • J. Mizeraczyk

    - Year 2012

    We investigated the dynamics of laser generated ablation plasma plume expanding in ambient air and dynamics of the sound wave generated by the expanding plasma. The ablation plasma plume was generated during nanosecond laser micromachining of the thin metal foil. The time-resolved images of the expanding plasma plume and sound wave were captured at several nanosecond intervals. Using captured images the expansion rate of the plasma...

  • INVESTIGATION OF THE LOMBARD EFFECT BASED ON A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH

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    The Lombard effect is an involuntary increase in the speaker’s pitch, intensity, and duration in the presence of noise. It makes it possible to communicate in noisy environments more effectively. This study aims to investigate an efficient method for detecting the Lombard effect in uttered speech. The influence of interfering noise, room type, and the gender of the person on the detection process is examined. First, acoustic parameters...

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  • Sonar Pulse Detection Using Chirp Rate Estimation and CFAR Algorithms

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    This paper presents a new approach to sonar pulse detection. The method uses chirp rate estimators and algorithms for the adaptive threshold, commonly used in radiolocation. The proposed approach allows detection of pulses of unknown parameters, which may be used in passive hydrolocation or jamming detection in underwater communication. Such an analysis is possible thanks to a new kind of imaging, which presents signal energy in...

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  • Modeling of performance of an AUV stealth vehicle. Design for operation.

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    - Year 2017

    In the paper some results of research connected with modelling of performance and risk assessment of an AUV stealth vehicle are presented. A general approach to design of the stealth AUV autonomous underwater vehicle under consideration is introduced. The basic stealth characteristics of the AUV stealth vehicle are briefly described. The method of research is introduced. The AUV stealth vehicle concept is presented including the...

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  • Modelling of performance of an AUV stealth vehicle. Design for operation.

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    - Year 2018

    In the paper some results of research connected with modelling of performance and risk assessment of an AUV stealth vehicle are presented. A general approach to design of the stealth AUV autonomous underwater vehicle under consideration is introduced. The basic stealth characteristics of the AUV stealth vehicle are briefly described. The method of research is introduced. The AUV stealth vehicle concept is presented including the...

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  • AUTONOMOUS PLATFORM TO PROTECT MARITIME INFRASTRUCTURE FACILITIES

    Problems regarding the security of maritime infrastructure, especially harbours and offshore infrastructure, are currently a very hot topic. Due to these problems, there are some research projects in which the main goal is to decrease the gap and improve the methods of observation in the chosen area, for both in-air and underwater areas. The main goal of the paper is to show a new complex system for improving the security of the...

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  • Experience-Oriented Knowledge Management for Internet of Things

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    - Year 2016

    In this paper, we propose a novel approach for knowledge management in Internet of Things. By utilizing Decisional DNA and deep learning technologies, our approach enables Internet of Things of experiential knowledge discovery, representation, reuse, and sharing among each other. Rather than using traditional machine learning and knowledge discovery methods, this approach focuses on capturing domain’s decisional events via Decisional...

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